Is anyone else surprised that Burns and Allen are not requesting

[truckin]

recounts? Their races were extremely close and the majority in the Senate hung in the balance. Why wouldn't the RNC request this? What explanations could there be without getting into wild conspiracy theories? This seems very odd to me.

[Bucky]

1. Burns and Allen. What an interesting non-sequitor.

I think of this and you should too.

[central scrutinizer]

6. say good night, Gracie

[musette_sf]

8. i love Stephanie Miller's take on this

"From the Whitefish Chuckle Hut - it's the Burns & Allen Show!"

[tblue]

2. Because they know the recount would show how they tried to steal the election

With control of the Senate on the line, why else would they not take it to the mat?

[kimmerspixelated]

5. Yep,

That's what I think, too. Rove probably instructed them..."don't go there".

[Warpy]

7. Yes, that, plus Lieberman is the GOP ace in the hole

if they can kiss his ass enough, he'll change from indie to GOP and control of the Senate will stay in extremist hands.

[ginnyinWI]

3. I have a theory about Macaca

I think he's the type who likes things to be easy. He likes to be with the majority party in the Senate and just coast along voting with the crowd. He took a look and saw being in the minority as not at all fun. So he gladly conceded. Now he can go make a big pile of money somewhere (probably not at a university, though!)

[Mz Pip]

4. Allen was really too far behind

to realistically make up 7000 votes in a recount. Besides they used voting machines with no paper trail so recounting would have just resulted in the same numbers. All they really could do was make sure the vote count had been written down correctly and that canvasers after the election weren't finding enough discrepencies there to make a difference.

Don't know about Burns though.

Mz Pip
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